Pink salmon makes a nice meal for this black bear feeding on Anan Creek near the Anan Bear and Wildlife Observatory, in Wrangell. According to the City of Wrangell, "Anan Creek is an ancient Tlingit native fishing site located on the mainland at the south end of Wrangell Island." Anan Creek has the largest pink salmon run in Southeast Alaska, attracting significant numbers of black and brown bears to feast on the bounty during the months of July and August.

Perched on a handrail near the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center this month was a Lake Darner dragonfly, identifiable by a front thoracic stripe that features a deep, rounded indentation, according to "Dragonflies of Alaska," by John Hudson and Bob Armstrong. These dragonflies will fly at 50 degrees in light rain, but their colors turn dark when cool.

Sundews grow near an alpine muskeg pond on June 28. According to Mary Willson, a retired professor of ecology, the finger-like protrusions on the carnivorous pant are actually leaves armed with sticky "fingers" used to capture and digest unlucky insects who wander onto the plant.